About Me

Hi there! My name is Erdemt Bao, and I am currently a final-year master’s student at the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering (MSE), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). Before my master’s studies, I obtained my bachelor’s degree from the School of Automation at Wuhan University of Technology in June 2024.

My research interests lie in Robot Learning, with a particular focus on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, World Action Models (WAMs), and Robot Skill Learning.

The I Ching teaches that “All things arise from the same origin and unfold through transformation.” Guided by this idea, I aim to uncover the shared representations underlying diverse robotic experiences and to understand how intelligent systems transform countless interactions with the world into structured knowledge and meaningful understanding, ultimately giving rise to intelligent behavior.

Please feel free to contact me by email if you are interested in my work or would like to collaborate with me. 😄

🔥 News

• 2026.09:  🎉 HyperSkill is accepted to NeurIPS 2026!
• 2026.07:  🎉 Thrilled to have exhibited at WAIC 2026 in Shanghai!
• 2025.11:  🎉 WaveComm is accepted to ICRA 2026!
• 2025.06:  🎉 Our team won first prize in the Real-World Track of the CVPR 2025 RoboTwin Dual-Arm Collaboration Challenge!
• 2025.05:  🎉 Our team won a silver medal in Simulation Round 1 of the CVPR 2025 RoboTwin Dual-Arm Collaboration Challenge!

Publications

Dual-Process Atomic Skill Learning: Decoupling Semantic Reasoning and Real-Time Control Jun Chen*, Erdemt Bao*, Wenlong Dong, Jierui Liu, Qi Cai, Hao Wan, Shaopeng Li, Weijun Qin, Jing Liang, Huiping Zhuang† Under Review Project Page / Paper / arXiv / Code

NFTR: From Provable Mode-Averaging to Geodesic Subgoal Selection in Offline Goal-Conditioned RL Erdemt Bao*, Xing Lei*†, Jun Chen Under Review Paper / arXiv / Code

HyperSkill: Multi-Modal Skill Learning on the Unit Hypersphere Erdemt Bao*, Jun Chen*, Weijun Qin, Shaopeng Li, Ming Li, Mengchen Zhao, Ziqian Zeng, Cen Chen, Huiping Zhuang† NeurIPS 2026 Paper / arXiv / Code

Classification and Positioning of Circuit Board Components Based on Improved YOLOv5 Jun Chen†, Erdemt Bao, Jingyu Pan IISA 2022 Paper

* Equal contribution. † Corresponding author. ‡ Project Leader.

Challenge Awards

CVPR 2025 RoboTwin Dual-Arm Collaboration Challenge: Real-World Track First Prize 🥇 Team: Digital Dynamos

CVPR 2025 RoboTwin Dual-Arm Collaboration Challenge: Simulation Round 1 Second Prize 🥈 Team: Digital Dynamos

2023 COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) Meritorious Winner Team: WHUT

Honors

• 🏆 WHUT Top Ten Outstanding Students
• 🏆 WHUT Top Ten Elite Teams

Engineering Projects

Open-source Projects

Awesome-Robot-Skill-Learning Co-Project Lead & Co-First Author Project Link

Education

Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) School of Mechanical Science & Engineering (MSE) Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering Sept. 2024 – Jun. 2027 (expected)

Wuhan University of Technology (WHUT) School of Automation (SA) Bachelor of Engineering in Automation Sept. 2020 – Jun. 2024

Internship Experience

AGIBOT Innovation (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd. Embodied AI Research Center Research Intern, VLA Post-training 2026 – 2026

South China University of Technology (SCUT) MIAA Lab Research Intern, Robot Skill Learning 2025 – 2026

Reports & Media

Blog